YEREVAN. - The small business must declare about its problems on time.  

President of the “SME Cooperation Association” NGO, Hakob Avagyan, told the aforementioned to the journalists today at the opening of the week of small and medium-sized enterprises, EU4Business Week.

According to Avagyan, enterprises don’t always trust such structures: sometimes it’s even possible to hear the question: “Which party do you belong to?” Consequently, the bills aren’t discussed on time but retroactively, when one has to bear them on one’s back. And at that time the business goes out to the streets, but this guarantees no decisions. That’s why it’s necessary to discuss everything beforehand, he added.

Of course, not all such organizations worked regularly and intensively enough. Nevertheless, it’s still more efficient for a business to raise its issues through certain structures.

“Unfortunately, the councils adjunct to the PM and a number of Ministries, set up to support the enterprises, do not always convene on time. The issues are thus put on a back burner and accumulate. We like to compare ourselves with the European countries. But they have crossed this pass long ago: chambers and business organizations there are a serious counterbalance to the economic policy,” he noted.

Currently, the SME Cooperation Association is working on becoming an associate member of the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises  (UEAPME).

EU4Business Week Forum is held in Yerevan in cooperation with Small and Medium Enterprise Cooperation Association NGO (Armenia), the European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises  (UEAPME) and the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Eurochambres).